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Have you ever noticed we live in a country where a 95-year-old man can walk into a mud pit in Chicago, call his band The Fuckers, and start reciting “Enter Sandman” like he’s giving a TED Talk from the afterlife?
William Shatner. Ninety-five. Riot Fest. Douglass Park. Thirty-five minutes. Spoken-word heavy metal. In the mud. With people cheering like this is normal.
It is not normal. It is magnificent.
He did “Crazy Train.” He did “Ace of Spades.” He did Metallica. Not sang them. Talked them. Like Captain Kirk got trapped in a guitar amp and decided to negotiate with Satan instead of the Klingons.
Behind him: actual musicians. Marcus Nand. Phil Soussan. Grown men who have paid rent with real notes while a nonagenarian stands there going, “What the F is heavy metal?” and somehow makes it a question worth answering.
Brian May is on the record. Tony Iommi is on the record. The album is called *What the F Is Heavy Metal?* which is the most honest title in music since someone first admitted most of it is just louder complaining.
The crowd ate it up. Of course they did. We will watch a man old enough to remember radio as furniture stand in wet dirt and dare death to tap him on the shoulder. Death probably took one look, said “I’m not dealing with this today,” and went to find someone easier.
You’re never too old to live out your dreams. That’s the line they always use. The real line is: most people quit the second it gets embarrassing. Shatner waited until embarrassing became the whole act, then sold tickets.
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GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS YOU STREETS. THIS WEBSITE SHOWS YOU THE MOVIE SCENES FILMED ON THEM.
it's called Movie Scene Map → https://t.co/j5BjdTJcbX
15,716 real filming locations. 166 countries. one map.
click any pin. see what was filmed there.
search any movie. see every place it was shot.
Game of Thrones castles in Croatia.
Breaking Bad streets in Albuquerque.
Lord of the Rings hills in New Zealand.
the well from The Dark Knight Rises at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur.
the Woman in Red fountain from The Matrix in Sydney.
the best part is how fast your brain starts using it wrong.
you open it to search one movie.
then you search your city.
then your hometown.
then the place you went on vacation.
built by one anonymous guy who goes by Flightmussy.
just a website that lets a normal person see where their favorite movies were actually made.
open tab.
search your city.
see what movies got filmed near you.
That hauntingly beautiful soprano voice soaring over Faramir's doomed charge on Osgiliath in Return of the King belongs to Ben Del Maestro, a young soprano whose vocals in Howard Shore's score turn one of the film's most tragic moments into pure poetry.